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Compare And Contrast Ishmael Beah And Malala Yousafzai

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Both unexpected fighters in wars bigger than themselves, Malala Yousafzai and Ishmael Beah fight for their rights and most importantly, their lives. Each of their books displays very different stories. Malala tells a tale of being born into a world who wishes she was a boy and tries to deny her education. Because she spoke out about the issues in her home country of Pakistan she is shot in the head by the Taliban. Ishmael is thrown into the middle of a civil war where no side is any better than the other. The Sierra Leon government placed a gun in his hand at the age of thirteen, teaching him to shoot. Courage can be found in the harshest of places and in the most unlikely of people. Ishmael made a point of explaining how war and fear affected …show more content…

"I would always tell people that I believe that children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance" (Beah 169). The boys who had been forced to kill and fight a war that wasn’t theirs were taking steps towards recovery, surprisingly quickly. They began to be able to be children and young adults again. Stolen childhoods didn’t mean no adulthood. Children were braver and stronger than the adults surrounding them. Likewise, Malala had the courage to give herself a second chance. “I told myself, Malala, you have already faced death. This is your second life. Don't be afraid — if you are afraid, you can't move forward” (Yousafzai 308). She went through the horror of being and rushed from hospital to hospital, away from her family. She suffered through a drawn out recovery, yet Malala still has hope that she can be brave and make change in her new life. Her strength to continue fighting is …show more content…

On the topic she claimed, “If one man can destroy everything, why can't one girl change it? (Yousafzai 141-142). This brings up the valid point that just because a young girl may not seem like the predictable one to save her country and beliefs, doesn’t mean she can’t. Malala has started her own charity that has helped communities across the world get the education they need and other necessities for living healthy lives. Malala’s perseverance has given her cause global attention and the traction to make a real impact on a worldwide

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Malala Yousafzai, being a completely different person that any girl in her country demonstrates the gruesome and savage nature of the men and women in the country of Pakistan. She not only shows the unawareness driven by fright among the people there, but displays how horrid it truly was. Influences of a misinterpretation form of Islam yield the innocent under the hands of the miserable forces of the evil such as the Taliban. Subsequently, the country of Pakistan under Taliban rule has gone through continuous fear and discriminations that strip girls from their education. Malala Yousafzai, a young Pakistani woman who only wanted an education, was obligated to view her life at its worst and at the same time, view the desire and dreams of girls who fight for their education that they have been denied.

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Malala yousafzai is 16 years old a pakistani girl. She was a teacher in pakistan and her father was teacher , so the taliban asked her to stop to teach the women, but she thinking women have the powerful from the men. The taliban shot her in the head and she continue her struggle in the world and she writes a book I am Malala about girls in education. Malala had happend a famous girl in the world by the eqaulity man and woman and Malala received europe's biggest human rights prize i 2013.

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Malala has tough me to not stop what I’m doing just because someone knocks you down. I believe Malala is unstoppable because she would not stop going to school even though the Taliban told her to, Malala would not cover her skin even though she was told to, and after the Taliban shot Malala and she got better she did not stop fighting for girls/women’s right. In the text, the author wrote,”I think of the good the Malala Fund has done and will continue to do.” This shows that after Malala was healed, she did not stop protesting for women’s/girls rights and her Fund would still go

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One child, one teacher, one pen and one book can change the world”. That’s what Malala Yousafzai believes in. Malala is the young girl who fought for her education, the one who was shot on the head for attending school, and yet, nothing has ever stopped her. Nobody thought she’ll survive, but somehow she did.

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The message I put on my PSA was “Courage is not the absence of fear, it is the ability to act in the presence of fear.” That describes Malala because she knew the risk of being killed for standing up and speaking out. Eventually she was shot but she survived and she got back up and kept doing what she believed was right. She is such an inspiration and she could still be killed for what she is doing, by standing up against the taliban.

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